Erin O'Donnell

Erin is a water policy and governance specialist. She has worked in environmental management and water governance since 2003, as both a private consultant and with the Victorian Government. Erin developed state environmental water policy on new environmental water organizations (such as the VEWH), water trading, water market rules and using the water market to achieve environmental outcomes. Erin is currently a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School, where she has recently completed her PhD on the implications of using a corporation to hold and manage environmental water, in particular, the governance challenges of delivering both independence and accountability in managing such a precious public resource. Her thesis is available at http://hdl.handle.net/11343/191749

Experience

–present

Senior Fellow, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environment Law, University of Melbourne

Education

2017

University of Melbourne, PhD (Law)

2008

Deakin University, LL.B (Hons)

2002

University of Adelaide, B.Sc. (Hons)

Publications

2018

At the Intersection of the Sacred and the Legal: Rights for Nature in Uttarakhand, India, Journal of Environment Law

2017

Competition or Collaboration? Using Legal Persons to Manage Water for the Environment in Australia and the United States, Environmental and Planning Law Journal

2013

Australia's environmental water holders: who is managing our environmental water?, Australian Environment Review

2013

Common Legal and Policy Factors in the Emergence of Environmental Water Managers., Water and Society II.

2013

Rivers as a Nexus of Culture, Ecology and Technology., Global Water Forum

2012

Institutional reform in environmental water management: the new Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Journal of Water Law